PARADE OF ANIMALS

2009-01-08T11:25:00.001-08:00

"the durability of mail art works does not matter: the effect is in the moment"

Over 368 artists (from 40 countries) participated in The Parade of Animals: a global collage. We invite those who happen upon our blog, to stop and take a peek. Feel free to comment.

Peace

the scrapbook continues

2009-01-08T11:20:00.000-08:00

i have created another blog to document all the mail art received since the closing of the parade of animals exhibit: http://gahlilmailart.blogspot.com

any and all mail art received will be posted to this additional blog. if you have something you would like to share with myself and other mail artists, please feel free to send. this includes mail art calls as well as art, poetry, articles, stamps and all other forms.

thanks for dropping by.

gail

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

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POSTCARD READINGS

Theme: open
Technique: open
POSTCARD-SIZE ONLY
Deadline: September 15th, 2009

Mail to: Gail D Whitter
Unit 7 - 1735 Riverside Avenue
Trail, B.C., CANADA V1R 3Z3
email: gahlil2006@hotmail.com

online exhibit at: http://postcardreadings.blogspot.com/

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Postcard from Sassu Antonio, Italy

2007-10-02T17:35:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Rafael Levchin, USA

2007-10-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

Anna Banana, Canada

www.annabananastamps.ca

2007-09-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

Artistamps chapbook; art and more from Silvio de Gracia/Hotel DaDA, Argentina

2007-09-20T19:50:00.000-07:00

This post and the following 8 are from friends at the Trail Association for Community Living.

Set of 9 Artist Trading Cards from Beth M, Canada

2007-09-20T19:49:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Susan L, Canada

2007-09-20T19:48:00.000-07:00

Drawing by Tim P, Canada

2007-09-20T19:47:00.000-07:00

Drawing by Duane J, Canada

2007-09-20T19:45:00.000-07:00

Artist Trading Cards by Fallon U, Canada

2007-09-20T19:44:00.000-07:00

ATCs by Neil E, Canada

2007-09-20T19:43:00.000-07:00

Artist Trading Cards by Rhonda A, Canada

2007-09-20T19:40:00.000-07:00

Collage ATCs by Rebecca M, Canada

2007-09-20T19:37:00.000-07:00

Drawings by David Coulthard, Canada

CALL FOR ENTRIES

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SALT AND PEPPER

Spice in Life ... Spice in Life

POSTCARD SIZE

Deadline: April 30, 2008

Colour catalogue to all participants.

Possible exhibitions.

Send to the address of your choice or both:

Frantic Fan Mail

Dugort, Achill Island

County Mayo

Ireland

Anticham (Kim Hye Mee)

Gangnamge Gaepo 2 Dong

#3 Apt. 317-410

Seoul 135-800/South Korea

For more info: info@redfoxpress.com

2007-09-17T16:50:00.000-07:00

Ink drawing from Suzlee Ibrahim, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:49:00.000-07:00

Collage from Nazirah Mohd Ba'ai, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:47:00.000-07:00

Mixed media collage from M Safwan Ahmad, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:45:00.000-07:00

Drawing by Mohamed Tirani, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:44:00.000-07:00

Watercolour/mixed media from Hanny Qarera, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:43:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Danny Hidzwan, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:42:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Danny Hilman, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:41:00.000-07:00

Monoprint from Asliza Aris, Malaysia

2007-09-17T16:37:00.000-07:00

Art & more from Angela & Peter Netmail, Germany

2007-09-17T16:16:00.000-07:00

Photo from Pedro Costa, Brasil

2007-09-11T21:12:00.000-07:00

MAIL ART/NO MAIL ART

Mail Art Auctions & other crazy things

I have always thought Mail Art was a fantastic medium of creative communication, free from any mercantilism scheme for acquisition, sale, selection ... I have spent 30 years of my life in this apparent illusion. Today, some "network gurus" are pontificating on Mail Art, trying to trace new, delirious ways, participating in art biennials, selecting artists, asking money, promoting auction sales, citing the mayoral of the network ... all in the name of Mail Art! Luckily Mail Art transcends their raving statements. The problem is always the same: it's necessary to recognize real Mail Art from false. And to remember the old citation by Lon Spiegelmann: "Don't mix money and Mail Art" (better it would be: "Don't ever mix money and Mail Art" and "Mail Art uses institutions in the place of institutions against institutions". I'm inviting all to send by email or on paper to the organizers of eventual, future Mail Art auctions some sincere, genuine, unadulterated Mail Art Virus, which will contaminate and spread by its own networking creative imagination, real germs of salutary madness!

- Ruggero Maggi (with permission)

from Ruggero Maggi, Italy

http://www.camera312.it/
http://www.ruggeromaggi.it/

SHADOW PROJECT

Human beings are made up of a complex blend of several qualities; they are capable of noble transports and dark mean actions. They express themselves over a wide variability arc of actions, which are very different to each other, or rather antithetic, at the two ends. We can estimate the humanity level by looking at the oscillations between the two opposite poles of a hypothetical needle galvanometer, every cruelty, injustice, abuse of power, violence committed to others, and to the world, causes the needle shifting towards the negative extremity, showing the decline of values and the loss of existential sense. Such actions can be, as they have always been, of great historical impact (persecutions, wars, atomic energy used for destructive purpose), they can also attack one's everyday life and privacy dimension, and they can be very serious, even if not sensational. In any case, both in the little and great events, what is lost and difficult to restore, is the condition of harmony with oneself and the world, that one wins daily and that gives to all men the creative integration with the natural and social environment in which they live. In the final analysis, every negative event is a subtraction of humanity, it's a little or great, death act, that puts emptiness behind itself, producing a sort of shadow effect. The list of humanity subtractions is the alarming witness of present and past falls, whether demonstrated or foreseen, insidious or manifest, and can be meant as the synthetic and symbolic representation of man's history, or can be considered as a simple list, in its analytical, repetitive and discouraging systematic nature.

-Ruggero Maggi (with permission)

2007-09-11T21:10:00.000-07:00

Collage postcards from Maria Da Gloria Jesus De Oliveira, Brasil

2007-09-11T20:51:00.000-07:00

Poplar Ridge Millie, Canada

2007-09-11T20:49:00.000-07:00

Poplar Ridge Marcala, Canada

2007-09-11T20:48:00.000-07:00

Poplar Ridge Leone, Canada

2007-09-11T20:45:00.000-07:00

Poplar Ridge Grace, Canada

2007-09-11T20:43:00.000-07:00

Poplar Ridge Gertie, Canada

2007-09-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

BIG K just dropped off a music-mix for our Opening:

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones; Round Here
Edward Bear - Down in Mexico
Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone
Hootie & The Blowfish - Let Her Cry
The Nylons - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Troggs - Wild Thing
Survivor - Eye of The Tiger

Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane

John Lennon - IMAGINE, Cold Turkey

The Beatles - Twist & Shout
The Bryds - Mr. Tambourine Man; The Train Kept a -Rollin
The Turtles - You Showed Me
The WHO (?) - Baby, Please Don't Go
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Warren Zevon - Werewolf in London
Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier

Bobby Day - Rockin Robin

Elvis - Hound Dog

Heart - Barracuda

and:

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm

Doug & The Slugs - Makin it Work

Elton John - Crocodile Rock

Rolling Stones - The Spider and The Fly; Wild Horses; Beast of Burden

Lou Reed - Walk on The Wild Side

Elvis - Teddy Bear

Sheryl Crow - Every Day is a Winding Road; Sweet Child of Mine

Prince - When Doves Cry

The Eagles - Hotel California

The Monkees - I'm A Believer

Thanks BIG K! And for those who can't be here, play a tune and sing along - you will be with us in spirit ...

2007-09-07T19:15:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Adelaide Mertens, Brasil

2007-09-07T19:14:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Clara Figueira, Brasil

2007-09-07T19:13:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Jeanete Ecker Kohler, Brasil

2007-09-07T19:12:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Vera Regina Presotto, Brasil

2007-09-07T18:29:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Tania Luzzatto, Brasil

2007-09-07T18:27:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Sirlei Caetano, Brasil

2007-09-07T18:26:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Marilia Saltiel Renck, Brasil

2007-09-07T18:25:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Theresina Bof Reis, Brasil

2007-09-07T18:24:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Mara Eliane Rade, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:59:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Heloisa M Sona Glio, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:58:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Iara Saltiel, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:57:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Cibele Geossi, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:56:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Thereza Christina de Azevedo Jacob, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:55:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Maria Do Carmo Toniolo, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:41:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Jane Beatriz Sperandio Balconi, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:40:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Marithe Bergamin, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Therezinha Fogliato Lima, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:37:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Terezinha Dirce Missel de Jesus, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Marines Spagnol, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:21:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Luiza GP Gutierrez, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:20:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Dorali Konrad, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:03:00.000-07:00

Collage from Iria Ana Ritter, Brasil

2007-09-07T16:02:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Eny Herbst, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:51:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Lavinia Thys, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:50:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Jacira Fagundes, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:44:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Jania Luzzatto, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:18:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Fatima Siqueira Borges, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:12:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Rejane de Castro Zanchin, Brasil

2007-09-07T15:02:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Maria Julieta R D Ferreira, Brasil

2007-09-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

Postcard and morefrom Mara Caruso, Brasil

2007-09-07T11:09:00.000-07:00

Artist Trading Cards from Eileen Korponay, Canada

2007-09-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

Artist Trading Cards by Kelly Korponay, Canada

2007-09-06T23:22:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Antoni Miro, Spain

www.antonimiro.com

2007-09-06T22:49:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Reiner Langer, Germany

2007-09-06T22:36:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Colectivo Carnedecanon: Maria Belen Granda & Patricio Dalgo Toledo, Ecuador

2007-09-06T22:21:00.000-07:00

Mail Art Call and Add and Pass from Colectivo Carnedecanon, Ecuador

2007-09-06T21:55:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Mastura M Jarit, Malaysia

Check out the mail art call:

http://imagmailart.tripod.com

http://mosacollections.tripod.com

2007-09-06T21:53:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Estelita Branco, Brasil

2007-09-06T21:38:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Peter Netmail, Germany

2007-09-06T21:37:00.000-07:00

Postcard from Maidie Hilmo, Canada

2007-09-06T21:35:00.000-07:00

concrete bird by blue apple, canada

2007-09-06T19:46:00.000-07:00

Christel Mc's Door, Canada

2007-09-06T19:43:00.000-07:00

3-D clay sculptures from William Daley, Canada

2007-09-06T00:33:00.000-07:00

Graphic collage sent in by Anabela G & Bruno C, Portugal

Note: Due to the fact that children are participating in this event and therefore viewing this blog, a portion of this collage was deemed too graphic. The entire collage will be included in the cd documentation for artists to view.

2007-09-01T14:28:00.000-07:00

Postcard & two canvas collages from Lori Prest, Canada

2007-09-01T14:27:00.000-07:00

Chinese brush by Diane Bertrand, (QC) Canada

2007-09-01T14:26:00.000-07:00

Art by Ken Armstrong, Canada

2007-09-01T14:25:00.000-07:00

fabric postcard from blue apple, canada

2007-09-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Martha Robertson, Canada

2007-09-01T14:22:00.000-07:00

Postcard from blue apple, canada

2007-09-01T14:21:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Phil Hanson, Canada

2007-09-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

ATCs from Greig E Gaspar, USA

2007-09-01T14:10:00.000-07:00

Art by Bev Damman, Canada

2007-08-30T15:23:00.000-07:00

Postcards from Agnieska Boron, Poland

www.agnieskaboron.com.pl

2007-08-30T15:04:00.000-07:00

Finnigan, Canada

2007-08-29T19:57:00.000-07:00

ATC from Jenn Hamm (Canada) who also sent in works from the kids in her Summer Art Camp - Heather, Caitlyn, Riley, Brett, Lainey, Krista and Jessica.

2007-08-29T19:56:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Lainey, Canada

2007-08-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Brett D, Canada

2007-08-29T19:54:00.000-07:00

Artwork by Riley, Canada

2007-08-29T19:52:00.000-07:00

Artworks from Caitlyn M, Canada

2007-08-29T19:47:00.000-07:00

Artworks from Heather C, Canada

2007-08-29T19:46:00.002-07:00

ATC from Krista, Canada

2007-08-29T19:46:00.001-07:00

Artist Trading Card from Lainey, Canada

2007-08-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

ATC from Riley, Canada

2007-08-29T19:44:00.000-07:00

Artist Trading Card from Brett, Canada